Wild pigs, porcupines and rats, which are the main predators in paddy fields, are kept away using traps.

State and government agencies are also investigating whether wild pigs might play a role in spreading disease to crops that reach humans' plates.

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2.1informal (obnoxious person)

cerdo masculinocoloquial

cerda femeninocoloquial

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

She'd come close to hitting him except that he'd finished with such a charming smile that she couldn't stay irritated at him for being a chauvinist pig.

Go ahead: call me an insensitive male chauvinist pig.

At least I know he's not a sexist chauvinistic pig.

He couldn't help but admire how much more of a fat, greedy, oafish pig his uncle had become in his absence.

A devotee of the sexual revolution, he remained in many ways an unreconstructed, 1950s male chauvinist pig.

He was a greedy pig, and he should never have given in.

Maybe I'm a chauvinist pig, but you know, the women in my life have never given me any reason to think otherwise.

Happily, in most cases, the gentlemen are not chauvinist pigs either, and both parents share the duties of feeding the chicks when they hatch.

Some of the lads embrace their new role as master of the house more enthusiastically than others, but are they really capable of playing the male chauvinist pig for the full four weeks?

He deserved it anyway, leaving me to be trampled on by those male pigs!

Girls get backhanded by misogynist male pigs, women get into fistfights with each other, old flames line up on opposite sides of the battlefield.

Almost down to his last low, although this time round, he had been such a greedy pig.

It's in my nature to be a greedy fat-sucking pig.

Thirty years later, feminists referred to men as ‘male chauvinist pigs.’

2.2informal (glutton)

glotón masculino

glotona femenino

angurriento masculinoCono Sur coloquial

angurrienta femeninoCono Sur coloquial

2.3derogatory slang (policeman)

policía masculino

mono masculinoEspaña despectivo argot

tombo masculinoColombia Venezuela coloquial despectivo

paco masculinoChile coloquial despectivo

cana masculinoRío de la Plata despectivo argot

tira masculinoMéxico coloquial despectivo

the pigs—la pasma / la bofiaEspaña despectivo argot

At about the same time, people who disliked the police began calling them pigs.

All police are pigs because they make the conscious decision to join an organization which is, basically, legal GANGSTERISM.

He's known for unusual sentences, like the time he ordered a man who called a police officer a pig to spend a couple of hours penned up with the real thing.

And a man who called a policeman a pig had to stand for two hours with a hog in a pen set up in a town centre.

Sure, you might call the guy who is a pig a pig, but not all policemen.

2.4US slang (unattractive woman)

bagre masculinocoloquial

callo masculinoEspaña coloquial

charamusca femeninoMéxico coloquial

verbo transitivopigging, pigged

coloquial

1EEUU

(share sleeping accommodation)

compartir la cama

Having no offer of beds, I returned to the schooner, and we pigged it out in the least miserable way we could.

'The men were prepared to pig it anyhow, and a few cubic feet of space didn't matter - such was their spirit.'

So long as they pigged it with him and were willing to share his lot he was not unkind to them, unless he happened by some accident to achieve drunkenness.

After years of separation, their paths cross only to find out that Anna is living a happy married life with two children, whereas Raoul has become a porter with a family of six children who are forced to pig it as they cannot afford proper housing.

In Bolton they pigged it in a wretched artisans' dwelling in Davenport Street. The project was none the less immensely successful.